This season I won’t be able to do the mid-week Press Conference podcast every week but I do hope to do it as many weeks as possible. There will be the On The Road Home podcast every week, but it will only include player and coach interviews for road games.

Sadly, it looks like there will only be one more of these before the season, what with the embargo on press at practice. Unfortunately it’s just not worth my time to make the trip from Roseville down to Berkeley just to get 10 minutes of practice and 10 minutes of interviews. So the next podcast will be from the Tuesday September 1st press conference before the Maryland game.

I’ll have some thoughts on the change in press access later today or tomorrow.

As a note, all of my podcasts, both here and at BearTerritory.net are free for all to listen to. No need to be a BearTerritory.net subscriber. It’s something that’s very important to me and I specifically ask the BearTerritory.net staff to keep it that way. The only reason they are hosted there is because the athletic department wants all content that come from practices to be on approved media outlet sites and this blog isn’t one of them (only blogs hosted by major newspapers are). But for all intents and purposes, I view this as a blog feature that I put together for EMFMV as much as for BearTerritory.net.

My weekly “practice” podcast is posted over at BearTerritory.net. I put “practice” in quotes because I can only make it down to Berkeley one day a week and with the press luncheon moved from Tuesday to Monday for Big Game week and there being no practice on Monday’s, I had to pick between the press conference and the practice. Since BearTerritory had no one else going to the press conference, I picked that.

So the good news is the podcast has quotes. The bad news is no info from practice. In any case, here’s the link:

As a reminder, these are always free to listen to. Also remember that this week’s game being a road game, my OTRH podcast will have coach and player audio like the BearTerritory podcasts do during the week. Also remember that we will live-blog the game from our homes and the press-box.

As with all of the podcasts over there, they’re all non-subscription articles and free to all.

As an FYI, I’m still working on putting together my On The Road Home podcast from the Arizona game. It’ll have audio quotes from the coaches and players as well as my normal commentary. I’ll go up tomorrow morning.